After running RPM Fusion’s MirrorManager instance for many years on Fedora I moved it to a CentOS 6.4 VM. This was necessary because the MirrorManager installation was really ancient and still running from a modified git checkout I did many years ago. I expected that the biggest obstacle in this upgrade and move would be […]

After having upgraded our mirror server from Fedora 17 to Fedora 19 two weeks ago I was curious to try out bcache. Knowing how important filesystem caching for a file server like ours is we always tried to have as much memory as “possible”. The current system has 128GB of memory and at least 90% […]

Mainly using Fedora, I am accustomed that old kernel images are automatically uninstalled after a certain number of kernel images have been installed using yum. The default is to have three kernel images installed and so far this has always worked. I am also maintaining a large number of Ubuntu VMs and every now and […]

Updated to Fedora 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-08-07, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-07-03, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-06-05, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-05-08, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

After having received my Raspberry Pi in November, I am finally using it. I have connected it to my television using raspbmc.Using XBMC Remote I can control it without the need for a mouse, keyboard or lirc based remote control and so far it works pretty good. Following are a few pictures with the new […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-04-03, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-03-06, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-02-06, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

With the recent approved review of the package crtools in Fedora I have made a feature proposal for checkpoint/restore. To test checkpoint/restore on Fedora you need to run the current development version of Fedora and install crtools using yum (yum install crtools). Until it is decided if it actually will be a Fedora 19 feature […]

We have integrated new nodes into our cluster. All of the new nodes have a local SSD for fast temporary scratch data. In order to find which are the best options and IO scheduler I have written a script which tries a lot of combinations (80 to be precise) of file system options and IO […]

After having successfully updated libcdio in rawhide to 0.90 and also introduced the split off libcdio-paranoia in Fedora’s development branch, I rebuilt most of on libcdio depending packages. Two packages were no longer building but their maintainers quickly fixed it. The only broken dependent package was kover. As I am still upstream of kover I […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2013-01-09, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

I have updated the scripts which are using the mirrored project status information in our database to display even more information about what is going on on our mirror server. In addition to the overall traffic of the last 14 days, 12 months and all the years since we started to collect this data, the […]

A few days ago I started to upgrade my PowerStation from Fedora 15 (running my own rebuild) to Fedora 18 Beta. The update from the running Fedora 15 to Fedora 16 was the really hard part. It seems that the userspace moved from 32bit to 64bit and that was something that yum, understandably, could not […]

This month’s come together will be held on 2012-12-05, 8pm at our regular pub (Trödler).

New mirror added: FreeBSD